Succot

Seeing our brothers’ plight: The light Hanukkah demands we bring into the world - opinion

Hanukkah and Vayeshev together reveal that the festival’s light shines only when we open our eyes to our brothers’ struggles and choose loyalty and compassion.

Candles are lit on the eighth night, at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, last Hanukkah. The main idea of the holiday is the spiritual illumination of the public sphere, says the writer.
 Rabbi Moshe Hauer with President Isaac Herzog

Orthodox Union’s Rabbi Moshe Hauer dies of sudden heart attack at age 60

 SHLOMO ARTZI is one of the superstars appearing at this year’s Tamar Festival.

Tamar Festival turns 24: The popular Dead Sea musical extravaganza returns on Succot

A man examines an Etrog as ultra orthodox Jews shop the four species, for the upcoming Jewish holiday of Sukkot, in the ultra orthodox neighborhood of Meah Shearim, Jerusalem, October 6, 2022.

Why do most Asian Jews use imported etrogs on Sukkot?


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Cook a vegetarian meal to break the fast

Vegeterian food

Golan Telecom fined for closing call centers on Succot

During the 2013 Succot holiday’s intermediate days, the required hours of operation were reduced to 10, when they were required to operate 13 hours a day.

The iPhone 5 on display 370

Reality Check: The Camino de Santiago

During Succot, we went on a pilgrimage.

JEFF BARAK and his wife, Yemima 370

Out There: Happy worshipers

Few are the things Jews like to complain about more than their synagogues; I speak here from experience, because I am one of the complainers.

complaining jews 370

Diaspora Diaries: Second day chag conundrum

If we are Am Yisrael, if global Jewry is one, then surely we should all be following the same rules and patterns?

Jews celebrate succot 370

A Succot of peace

Israeli and Palestinian negotiators are allowing themselves to be vulnerable. And they are proceeding anyway with faith that they will be protected.

Interior of a succa 370